Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 8:28 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1995, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 060128 SVRMAF TXC461-060215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 828 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...UPTON COUNTY AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MCCAMEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AT 816 PM THE SHERIFF/S OFFICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF MCCAMEY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 2:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-052045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 233 PM CDT (133 PM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 225 PM CDT (125 PM MDT)...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST OF FORT DAVIS TO NORTHWEST OF ABILENE. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS WEST OF ODESSA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PERMIAN BASIN SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| May 6, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.